Peru vs USSR: Democracy

Peru

in 2018

USSR

in 1991

Peru rank

1st

USSR rank

1st

Democracy over time

Peru
USSR

How they compare

Peru currently reports 2 against 1 in USSR, a difference of 1.

That makes Peru's figure about 2.0 times USSR's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 70 shared years of data; in 1922 it was USSR ahead.

Peru ranks 1st and USSR ranks 1st of 167 countries.

Individual pages

Democracy in Peru
Democracy in USSR
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Democracy
Source: Polity 5 (2020) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 168 places, 18,392 data points, 1776–2020
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Identifies the political regime of a country using the Polity 5 data by the Center for Systemic Peace. It distinguishes between autocracies (score 0), anocracies (score 1), and democracies (score 2).